Registrar is now open to all Cloudflare customers.
The Cloudflare domain name registrar is now available to all Cloudflare customers, the company announced on Friday.
The registrar launched a highly-secure registrar in 2016 and started expanding the registrar in September of last year. It was still only open to select customers until now.
The big hook for the registrar is that Cloudflare doesn’t charge a markup. Customers pay whatever Cloudflare pays the registry and any ICANN fees.
The company is touting another big feature: one-click Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). 25% of domains using Cloudflare registrar now use DNSSEC.
Other registrars might follow suit in light of ICANN’s new push to get all domain names to enable DNSSEC.
David Thornton says
Are they supporting premium renewal domain names (e.g. Donuts premium names with premium renewal fees) yet or being explicit about the fact that they’re still not supporting them, prior to one changing name servers and then finding out?
Rob Monster - Epik + Anonymize + BitMitigate = Better than CloudFlare says
This is an important topic following the big spike in DNS security compromises over the last few weeks. However, DNSSEC is only one tiny part of the solution.
DNSSEC is supported and user-configurable in the Epik.com Host Records Manager. From next week it will be standard on domains that use the Epik DNS, including even for parked domains.
Also, a few related product announcements following Epik’s acquisition of BitMitigate.com. Effective immediately, all domains registered at Epik are eligible for FREE:
– Content Delivery Network
– 4096-Bit SSL
– DDoS protection
– Free WHOIS privacy as always and full integration in upcoming launch of WhoQ.com
– Free end-to-end encryption for all your users using Anonymize.com VPN
The combination of the above is lights-out BETTER than CloudFlare and they fully KNOW it.
Also, let it be widely known that CloudFlare has a gaping security hole. There are at least 2.6 million CloudFlare customer websites which expose the source IP, which means no DDoS protection.
You can check your site for free here:
https://netobserver.org/website-exposure-test.php
For anyone going to ICANN Kobe , Nick Lim (CTO), Sufyan Alani (Director of Business Development) and I will be there from March 8.
Frank Michlick says
I moved one of my domains there to test things out, and the registrar functionality is still very basic. Most importantly, it appears to be only available for domains using their DNS. No new registrations available and many TLDs are not yet supported. Messaging their support involved a lot of back and forth for me.
H says
It has been available since the very beginning, I think.
Andrew Allemann says
The big news with them is that they enabled it with one click
Domain Boss says
Why do I need DNSSEC? My domains are Epik seems to be secure with double authentication.
Frank Michlick says
Two factor authentication secures your registrar account. DNSSEC secures that your website resolves to the right site, and prevents DNS spoofing or poisoning. Two different features. Registrars are supposed to offer DNSSEC, in one form or another.
Domain Boss says
@ Rob
How does CDN benefit people, especially people who have domains at Epik?
Does it auto generate better parking pages, etc with relevant content? Sorry, I just want to understand it.
Nick Lim says
Hi Domain Boss,
A CDN benefits anyone by increasing the performance, security, and control of your website. BitMitigate provides even more benefit to Epik customers specifically as it provides a continuity of service from the domain all the way to the website delivery from a single provider that you can trust. This way your website isn’t built and relying on 10 different unpredictable and moving pieces ex. SSL from here, CDN from there, and DDoS protection from some other company. Furthermore we are rolling out an update shortly where customers of Epik can easily roll out CDN, DDoS Protection, and SSL to any of their websites and subdomains with just a single click in the control panel. No complicated setup or configuration necessary. This means making sure your website is using the latest technologies for your website is as simple as registering your domain with Epik.
BitMitigate can benefit any domain. In the case of parking pages as you mentioned our CDN will make them load faster and provide them with SSL automatically. This will increase the number of visits to your website as a result of the SEO benefits brought by SSL (without SSL your website is deranked by Google). Furthermore it increases the engagement rate of people visiting that website as it loads faster and makes the user experience better. People are also more inclined to trust a website that doesn’t say “Not Secure” in the address bar.
Ultimately a CDN, and the BitMitigate website package as a whole is a no-brainer enhancement that makes any website better all around.
Best,
Nick
H says
The article links to a previous blog post dated 16 January (link on the word “announced”), where they already say “you can do that with one click”, and in fact it was available like that earlier. I know because when I transferred some of my domains to CF last year and DNSSEC was on automatically, could be off and back on with one click – the interface for this setting has not changed since then.
Rob Monster says
I am pretty sure that this is just CloudFlare trying to stay relevant so they can get their $3.5 billion IPO done before anyone realizes that their product is a house of cards.